9 dead as police crackdown vs activists in Southern Tagalog Updated Mar 8, 2021 5:08:00 PM enablePagination: false endIndex: Fishers group PAMALAKAYA, Anakpawis, and peasant groups gather at the Commission on Human Rights to condemn the deadly crackdown in Southern Tagalog. The Sunday bloody carnage killed known activist leaders, and arrested many other progressives. Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 8) — The Philippine National Police reported that nine people were killed in separate operations in Calabarzon provinces on Sunday. At least seven of the dead were identified by human rights group Karapatan as members of progressive and indigenous groups. The crackdown took place two days after President Rodrigo Duterte said he told the military and police who encounter armed communist rebels "to make sure they kill them."